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Dice Roller Campaign Number is 664.

Are we rolling in order or rolling 6 times and placing where we want?

Not sure of details yest but here are my rolls.

Speed [1d100] = 85

Gun Accuracy [1d100] = 84

Throwing Accuracy [1d100] = 78

Strength [1d100] = 58

Bravery [1d100] = 26

Experience [1d100] = 10

handedness [1d10] = 1

With modifiers I have:
Speed 90 (+12)
Gun Accuracy 89 (+15)
Throwing Accuracy 83 (+10)
Strength 68 (15)
Bravery 41 (+1 / +3)
Experience 35 (none / -10)
Not ambidextrous

I work this weekend (at least I'll get holiday pay) but I should have a character up in day or two. Really looking forward to this, I've owned these rules for years and this will be my first game!

Yee-haw!

Here are my rolls:

Speed: [1d100] = 93; Gun: [1d100] = 10; Throw: [1d100] = 90
Strength: [1d100] = 31; Bravery: [1d100] = 48; Experience: [1d100] = 28
Handedness: [1d10] = 10

I think that gives me:
Speed: 93
Gun Accuracy: 35
Throwing Accuracy: 95
Strength: 46
Bravery: 58
Experience: 28
Ambidextrous

Fastest gun in the west! Now, if only he could hit the broad side of an anything.

How much money do we start with?

The rules say $150, not sure if we are changing anything. I am almost done mine.

Howdy pardners, just a heads up to revisit your Experience (bonus doesn't apply).

Oh, right. I've edited my post.

I don't have the rule book. What's this about professions? And I don't see a whole slew of options for things to throw—is a throwing knife specialist something that's feasible?

Profession/occupation is just for color, nothing in the rules about it. No specialties that I saw, if you own a knife you can throw it. Experience bonus doesn't matter for my PC, nothing changes but I fixed it.

Zhym, If it fits in the scenario your rolls would be cool for an Indian with a couple of tomahawks. Several knives as well wouldn't hurt.

Here's what I have so far, purely based on rolls:

Ted Briargulch

Speed: 93 (Speed: +15)
Gun Accuracy: 35 (Gun accuracy: +0)
Throwing Accuracy: 95 (Throwing accuracy: +15)
Strength: 46 (Wounds: 14)
Bravery: 58 (Speed: +1; Accuracy: +3)
Experience: 28 (Accuracy: -10)
Ambidextrous

First Shot: +16 (+weapon)
Base Hit (Guns): -7
Base Hit (Throwing): +8

How does combat actually work? I have no idea what a +16 or -7 actually means in terms of game play.

Also, should we coordinate on purchases? I assume we're going to be part of a group, not fighting each other, right? Should we all have horses?

Speed basically determines initiative, highest goes first. Add 50 to your accuracy and that is your % chance to hit. There are some situational modifiers (range, moving, surprised etc). I have never played but just read the pdf.

Sorry been a busy day. Accuracy modifiers are applied to the base 50% chance to hit. The number of attacks per round heavily favors guns over other weapons. Though being good with a knife or hawk can help in a pinch I wouldn't recommend building a character around throwing. It will be limiting.

I left the brawling tables off the character creation rules and I am not entirely sure what I am going to do but we probably won't use the brawling tables for hand to hand.

Hanging_Judge - You will need to keep your percent rolls as well, as they are what improves.

Do all weapons do the same damage?

Here is some inspiration. Keep an eye on the time for the "Slow" lever action. in case you have a hard time counting that is 10 shots from a Winchester 1892 carbine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPMH5Rn ... L7UfcfuhY5

Is there any difference in game terms between a poor horse and a good horse?

Black Wyvern wrote:Hanging_Judge - You will need to keep your percent rolls as well, as they are what improves.

Yes, it's all filled out on my character sheet. Added to The Band page.

I was thinking of leaning into Ted's quickness and ambidexterity to have him use a couple of quick-draw revolvers. But the range of the quick-draw revolvers seems pretty short. Is that going to be a problem? Would it make sense to have a quick-draw revolver and a single-action revolver? Or would I be limiting the character too much by not equipping him with a rifle of some sort? And how much is that extra +2 of speed likely to matter (especially since Ted will have a First Shot score of +24 with a SAR6)?